Will you still say, “I am a god,”
in the presence of those who slay[a] you?
Yet you will be only a man, not a god,
in the hands of those who kill you.
10 You will die the death of the uncircumcised(A)
at the hands of strangers.(B)
For I have spoken.

This is the declaration of the Lord God.’”

A Lament for Tyre’s King

11 The word of the Lord came to me:

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 28:9 Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr, Vg; other Hb mss read of the one who kills

Will you then say, “I am a god,”
    in the presence of those who kill you?
You will be but a mortal, not a god,(A)
    in the hands of those who slay you.(B)
10 You will die the death of the uncircumcised(C)
    at the hands of foreigners.

I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.’”

11 The word of the Lord came to me:

Read full chapter